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Old 11-18-2007, 10:36 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by hardcoreblogger View Post
there are lots of them and some of them install the worst fake codec trojans i have seen
That's what scares me. I am working on a service that does wholesale indexing of hostnames and the crawler is busy churning through thousands and thousands of blackhat sites. I've tried a few of the hostnames and most redirect to a pseudo-MGP that shows a fake dialog claiming there's a codec error, and of course it offers you the exe...

It's one thing to spam the SEs to get traffic to a paysite, it's something else to use it to infect people.
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